Intro: ||: D - Bm7 | G - A7alt :||SPOKEN:You can gamble for match sticks, you can gamble for gold.The stakes may be heavy or small. But if you haven't gambled for love and lost, You haven't gambled at all.

They call me a moonlight gambler I've gambled for love and lostWhen I gamble for love but it isn't in the cardsOh, what heartaches it can cost me

Win or lose, I'm a moonlight gambler And a winner is what I long to beSo I'll gam - ble for love just as long as I liveTill the day Lady Luck smiles on me

Well, you can gam - ble for match sticksYou can gam - ble for goldThe stakes may be heavy or smallBut if you haven't gam - bled for love and lostThen you haven't gam - bled at allNo, if you haven't gam - bled for love in the moonlight Then you haven't gam - bled at all

So I'll gam - ble for love just as long as I liveTill the day Lady Luck smiles on meThey call me the moonlight gambler They call me the moonlight gambler